This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food
He can do a perpetual damage control tour for the next 30 years, but it doesn’t change the fact that he’s trying to build the panopticon.
It does make every conversation about who is documented and who is undocumented 10 times more ridiculous. Erasing a marginalized community and erasing the records of the community is incredibly easy. Sure it is fire and flooding, but also a lot of these reviews are not digitized or indexed.
Imagine if we spent like, a quarter of the Pentagon's budget on art instead
Yep. You’re going to say “fuck tha police” one day and a month later you won’t be able to get through TSA.
I stay reading water news and oof this ain't great
This is a pig/pit bull cross-breed.
It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”
The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.
I got by cancer during covid—or, as I like to call it, canny in a panny—with A LOT of help from my friends
On International Women’s Day a reminder that my Alice had a mother and a sister and grannies, aunts, girl friends and girl cousins.
They all loved her as a woman.
When the transphobes say they speak for all women and are protecting women and girls, they are wrong.
I'm no fancy political consultant, but, hey, if you're in Dem comms, you should notice that Fox News panicked over Trump wearing a cheap Trump merch baseball cap to receive the bodies of soldiers he got killed for no reason he can articulate, and you should absolutely lean into that.
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
Vote Blue No Matter Who got us in this mess. Most reps are greedy grifters who like having an easy job where they get paid by taxpayers and also bribed by lobbyists. Like @repdangoldman.bsky.social who pivoted to Abolish ICE when it was politically convenient and not because it was right
It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.
The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.
We were drinking Everclear punch out of Sterilite tubs and praising ourselves for our resourcefulness. Buying $2 wine in grad school was a step *up.*
Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
Yes. A MILLION.
This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...
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A member of ACT UP said that during the peak years of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s: “We went to funerals and buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and then fucked danced and partied all night.”
Because the world is on fire, it’s on us to live out loud. We need to do it all.
We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.
This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
The gist is that legal hemp and illegal marijuana look & smell exactly the same and you can't tell them apart unless you 1.) smoke it or 2.) get it tested in a lab using equipment that NC cops don't have. But police often SAY they can tell the difference & use it as a pretense to make arrests anyway
The North Carolina Supreme Court heard a case about weed smell last September! The attorney held up a baggie of cannabis in front of the justices and dared the cops in the room to arrest him! SPOILER: They did not arrest him www.ncrabbithole.com/p/lawyer-hol...
Two things. I’ve heard this from many, many upper class white liberals.
And I renew my conspiracy theory that science could (has??) absolutely engineer a skunk-free weed but the CIA or somebody won’t allow it because it’s such a useful pretense for locking up Black people and poor people.
Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...
while we're on the subject: there is no online echo chamber that is within an order of magnitude as politically, socially, and epistemic ally distorting as the average red state affluent suburb. there are masses that yearn for your ministry, reach out to them!
on this team and gonna keep saying: behind the extremely thin veneer of concern and responsibility of anti-Bluesky takes is the desperate attempt to portray something that is obviously their problem as though it were our problem. nice try. go with God, have a blessed day
This! A few months back, someone told me I don't really know how the average right wing person thinks. I had to remind him that while I've chosen to build my life elsewhere, growing up, my Alabama ass couldn't escape right-wing thought if I tried (and Lord, did I).
Labour is what happens when the nominally "center-left" party stands for absolutely nothing and just shifts more and more to the right in a foolish attempt to woo voters to their right: a massively unpopular party that's going to get absolutely crushed... and right-wing policies.
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
